Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site osiris.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!osiris!jcp From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Ooops, I forgot... Message-ID: <211@osiris.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 11:28:36 EST Article-I.D.: osiris.211 Posted: Mon Apr 1 11:28:36 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Apr-85 02:38:50 EST References: <254@cmu-cs-g.ARPA> <149@hyper.UUCP> <523@digi-g.UUCP> <153@hyper.UUCP> Organization: Johns Hopkins Hospital Lines: 20 > Mister Writer appreciates the time you are taking to respond to this > rather delicate issue, but wonders if you have, in fact, taken the > time to read carefully. Mister Writer finds Miss Manners style a > pure delight, and is saddened that there aren't more readers > who appreciate complete mastery of the language blended with a > gently ironic touch of nineteenth century Romanticism. > > -- SKZB Miss Manners tries very hard (and sometimes succeeds) to sound like that paragon among writers, that angel of the language, that model of perfection, Jane Austen. (Janeites unite !) -- jcpatilla "'Get stuffed !', the Harlequin replied ..."